Administrative Team

Dr Gan received his B.Eng (Electrical) from the National University of Singapore in 1999, and Ph.D in Advanced Materials for Micro- and Nano-Systems under the Singapore-MIT Alliance Program (SMA) in 2003. He is concurrently an Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). He had previously held the position of Assistant Chair of Alumni (2006-08) and Head of Materials Science Division (2010-12) in MSE. He was also a Visiting Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-10) and a SMA Fellow (2006-2010). He is currently also a Renaissance Engineering Programme Fellow, and Faculty Associate at the Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR since 2007.

His current research interests include the reliability study of advanced interconnect systems such as electromigration and low-k dielectrics failure mechanisms, process integration and reliability of 3D interconnects and through silicon vias, packaging materials and reliability for ruggedized electronics, and advanced failure analysis techniques. He is also a past General Chair of International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) 2010, Technical Chair of IPFA 2008, and currently an executive member of IEEE Singapore Reliability/ED/CPMT joint chapter and IPFA Board member. He has also served on the technical committees of IRPS, ESREF and IITC.

Yeo Siew Yam received his B. Eng (Electrical) from the National University of Singapore in 1989, MSEE from Naval Postgraduate School (USA) under a MINDEF (DTTA) Scholarship in 1998 and MBA (University of Melbourne) in 2008.

Prior to joining TL@NTU, Siew Yam was Assistant Director (Radar and Sensors) in FSTD (2015-2016), Programme Director in the Sensors Division, DSO (1999-2015) and Assistant Director (Sensors) in the Directorate of Research and Development (DRD) (1998-1999). He was a visiting researcher at NPS in 2004. He was awarded the DTTP (team prize) in 1992 and 2004.

Since July 2016, Siew Yam was seconded to TL@NTU and was appointed as the Deputy Director.